the audience applauded

good back-story, and good acting

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

Wow this was a rollercoaster mess all in one season, the show has declined from " wow finally a new intriguing show worthy of HBO classics!" To " what the hell am I watching?" To "ok I get why this was cancelled". The good: Fantastic actors, some likable characters, Portland as the city star is refhreshing and nice, show is open minded and reviewing real social struggles, it's weird and entertaining all at once. The bad: A supernatural experiment gone wrong. At some point you really don't know what you are watching. Is it drama? Is it scifi? Is it GOT? And sadly, the writers did take a bit too far the social politics conversations to a point of cringeworthy unnecessary plots (biggest of all was the Muslim psychologist and the son's connection). Overall, a memorable experience that sadly fell short of its premise.

To be honest, I enjoyed it. It touches topics I'm interested, like reverse discrimination, religion, and others. It relates to me so well that I somehow completed the missing parts of the show in my mind.But just as others reviews pointed out, touching was the only thing it did. It didn't go far. It stopped in an award place, as if the show is telling the audience that "oh we don't know how to deal with this, so you think about it, like philosophically."The characters are great. The topics are intriguing. But the show has wasted those.

I love the dynamic storylines of each character. I appreciate a show that takes its time with meaningful character development! I related with each character in a different way. 'I feel' that the in-depth content & diverse themes are so relevant at this time in history. It's refreshing to watch a show that makes me think, contemplate my own life, & then teaches me something. By binging the show, it was like watching a long movie. I was hooked after ep1! I didn't plan to watch all 10eps into the wee hours of the morning but I just couldn't stop. What's also refreshing is a storyline that surprises me. Too many shows are predictable these days. Here and Now was unique, provocative & worth the ten hours I spent parked on my couch this weekend!

"Six Feet Under" fans should be pleased by the family resemblance. Like its acclaimed forebear, "Here and Now" is a "dark" family drama with a slowly unfolding backstory and an overlay of spooky magic realism. There are no talking cadavers this time, at least so far; Dad (Tim Robbins) is still with us at the end of the first episode, though mighty bummed out about the Trumpocalypse. (I confess that Holly Hunter's hovering, hyperactivist Mom kind of makes me miss dear old Ruth Fisher.)In keeping with the Portlandian setting, their three adopted children are each from a different wartorn country. The older two, a Liberian-born fashion designer and a Vietnamese life coach, are saddled with conventional first-world problems (marital discord, psychosomatic illness, racial microaggressions, a corporate buyout) that even the writers seem a little bored by at times. No problem--the actors are likeable and attractive, and the quick-cut, three-card-monte editing style always shifts the focus away before too long. The youngest adoptee, Ramón, really brings the spooky fantasy--terrifying hallucinations and some sort of psychic connection with his (Iranian-born) therapist that still hasn't been explained, if it can be; they share each other's dreams and have portentous conversations about the all-receptive "porous mind." Woke teenage daughter Kristen (not adopted) and her "gender-fluid" Muslim BF have the best storylines so far; they've both taken to wearing the hijab in public and are currently being harassed by white-supremacist mean girls (is that even a thing?). The therapist--a tortured soul if there ever was one-- his wife (fabulous Necar Zadegan) and son (that's the gender-fluid BF) also have an intense old-country backstory that's just started to be unveiled (so to speak) as the first season closes. The explosive finale answers a few of our questions, leaves many more for the second season, if there is one, which has yet to be decided...